A taxonomy proposal for the assessment of the changes in soundscape resulting from the covid-19 lockdown

César Asensio; Pierre Aumond; Arnaud Can; Luis Gascó; Peter Lercher; Jean Marc Wunderli; Catherine Lavandier; Guillermo de Arcas; Carlos Ribeiro; Patricio Muñoz; Gaetano Licitra

doi:10.3390/ijerph17124205

A taxonomy proposal for the assessment of the changes in soundscape resulting from the covid-19 lockdown

César Asensio^*, Pierre Aumond, Arnaud Can, Luis Gascó, Peter Lercher, Jean Marc Wunderli, Catherine Lavandier, Guillermo de Arcas, Carlos Ribeiro, Patricio Muñoz, Gaetano Licitra

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Institute of Highway Engineering and Transport Planning (2090)

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Abstract

Many countries around the world have chosen lockdown and restrictions on people’s mobility as the main strategies to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. These actions have significantly affected environmental noise and modified urban soundscapes, opening up an unprecedented opportunity for research in the field. In order to enable these investigations to be carried out in a more harmonized and consistent manner, this paper makes a proposal for a set of indicators that will enable to address the challenge from a number of different approaches. It proposes a minimum set of basic energetic indicators, and the taxonomy that will allow their communication and reporting. In addition, an extended set of descriptors is outlined which better enables the application of more novel approaches to the evaluation of the effect of this new soundscape on people's subjective perception.

Original language	English
Article number	4205
Pages (from-to)	1-11
Number of pages	11
Journal	International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Volume	17
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17124205
Publication status	Published - 2 Jun 2020

Keywords

COVID-19
Descriptors
Indicators
Lockdown
Metrics
Noise
Sound
Soundscape

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Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

UN SDGs

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Asensio, C., Aumond, P., Can, A., Gascó, L., Lercher, P., Wunderli, J. M., Lavandier, C., de Arcas, G., Ribeiro, C., Muñoz, P., & Licitra, G. (2020). A taxonomy proposal for the assessment of the changes in soundscape resulting from the covid-19 lockdown. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(12), 1-11. Article 4205. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17124205

Asensio, C, Aumond, P, Can, A, Gascó, L, Lercher, P, Wunderli, JM, Lavandier, C, de Arcas, G, Ribeiro, C, Muñoz, P & Licitra, G 2020, 'A taxonomy proposal for the assessment of the changes in soundscape resulting from the covid-19 lockdown', International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, vol. 17, no. 12, 4205, pp. 1-11. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17124205

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A taxonomy proposal for the assessment of the changes in soundscape resulting from the covid-19 lockdown

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